Wrist attachment for use in drawing a bow string



W. VANCE Aug. 15, 1961- WRIST ATTACHMENT FOR USE IN DRAWING A BOW STRING Filed Feb. '7, 1958 ATTORNEYS United States Patent WRIST A'I'IACHIVIENT FOR USE IN DRAWING The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in the art of archery and, more particularly, relates to a wrist attachment which is designed for use in facilitating the drawing of a bow string.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a wrist attachment for use in drawing a bow string whereby the pull of the bow string is directly transmitted to the wrist and the arm muscles while the control of the bow string and arrow is maintained at the finger tips.

It has been a continuing problem for archers, to provide sufficient protection for the fingers from the bow string. Considerable attention has been given to this problem, and it has been proposed to provide a protective covering for the finger tips, it being further proposed to use finger-held devices for releasing a bow string and for protecting one from the abuses of the bow string, such as the Chinese thumb ring.

The discomfort suffered at the tips of the fingers results from the fact that a heavy pressure is put on the fingers by the bow string. In carrying out the present invention, it is proposed to provide a device adapted for attachment to ones wrist, which device will relieve this pressure to a marked extent, in a manner such that the discomfort which is presently being suffered will be eliminated, while at the same time there will still be full control of the release of the bow string by the finger tips.

Summarized briefly, the device conceived for the purpose of relieving the pressure and still providing full control includes a wrist band, which, at the heel of the hand, is connected to a flexible element that extends forwardly and terminates in a plurality of boot-like devices, adapted to be extended about the bow string and engaged frictionally against the bow string by the fingers. As a result, when the bow is pulled, half to all of the weight or pressure of the bow string is transferred to the heel of the hand, adjacent the wrist, instead of to the finger tips. At the same time, full control of the release of the bow string by the finger tips is retained.

It has been previously suggested to use archers gloves, finger-receiving tubular members, and the like, but none of these, so far as is known, have been adapted to provide maximum protection for the fingers; a transfer of all or a very substantial part of the weight or pressure of the bow string to the wrist; ease of the release of the bow string matching that achieved when no wrist draw device is used; and an even greater accuracy as regards the direction of the arrow than is true of conventional arrangements, due to the simplifying of the mechanics of releasing the bow string, this last characteristic being particularly true with bows of a Very heavy draw weight.

Another object is to provide a device of the character stated that can be manufactured at very low cost, and can be used either with or without a conventional archers or hooters glove.

Still another object is to provide a device as stated in which only a very light touch of the finger will hold a great amount of weight, with the fingers being reduced primarily to means for the holding of a point of friction between the material of the device and the bow string.

The foregoing and ancillary objects are attained by this invention, the preferred embodiments of which are set forth in the following description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIGURE 1 is an enlarged perspective view of a wrist attachment in accordance with the Present invention;

FIGURE 2 is a side elevational view of the wrist attachment of FIGURE 1 and showing the same in a position of use;

FIGURE 3 is a top plan view of the wrist attachment, shown in FIGURES l and 2; and,

FIGURE 4 is a detailed longitudinal sectional view, taken on line 44 of FIGURE 2.

Referring to FIGURES l to 4, inclusive, a wrist attachment for an archer is shown and is generally designated by the reference numeral 74. The wrist attachment 74 comprises a flexible strip 76 which has a wrist band or wrist engaging means 78 formed integrally on one end.

A pair of tongues 80 and 82 are defined on the opposing end of the strip 76 by an axial end slot 84. A rolled enlargement 86 extends along the distal end of the tongue 80 and a similar rolled enlargement 88 extends along the distal end of the tongue 82. The slot or space 84 is of a width and size to have the nock of an arrow shaft 90 extended therethrough, with the tongues 80 and 82 partially extended about the bow string 92 with the enlarged ends 86 and 88 on the side of the bow string 92 remote from the palm of the hand of the user, the hand being designated in FIGURES 2 and 3 by the reference numeral 94.

The attachment 74 further includes a flexible element 96 which extends across the space between the tongues 80 and 82 inwardly of and disposed in spaced adjacency to the enlargements 86 and 88. The flexible element 96 is secured to the strip by any suitable means, such as rivets 98, and is fixedly superimposed on the face of the strip, which is opposite to the face that is in confronting relation to the palm of the hand of the user.

When the shaft 90 is positioned with its nock receiving the bow string 92, the shaft being extended through the slot or space 84 and disposed between the tongues 80 and 82, the flexible element underlies and bears against the neck of the arrow shaft, as shown in FIGURE 4. In such position, the flexible element restrains movement of the arrow shaft 90 until released by the fingers of the hand of the archer.

In such position, the flexible element 96, as shown in FIGURE 4, will bear against the nock of the arrow shaft and serve to prevent movement of the arrow shaft by exerting a slight pressure thereagainst. The slot or space 84 defines a notch extending inwardly from the end of the flexible Strip 76 remote from the wrist band 78 and forms the pair of spaced tongues having the rolled enlargement extending along the distal ends thereof, which rolled enlargements extend at least partially about the bow string under the slight finger pressure.

The element 96 restrains movement of the neck of the arrow shaft 90 when it is in its position underlying and bearing against the nock of such shaft. This enables the archer to restrain movement of the arrow shaft 90 until it is desired to release the same and permits the archer to maintain the shaft in true alignment with the target. In FIGURES 2 and 3, the bow is indicated by the numeral 100 and it can be seen that it is held by the other hand 102 of the archer in the conventional manner.

This application is a continuation-in-part of application Serial No. 661,393, filed May 24, 1957, and since matured into Patent No. 2,929,372.

It is believed clear that the invention is not necessarily confined to the specific use or uses thereof described above, since it may be utilized for any purpose to which it may be suited. Nor is the invention to be necessarily limited to the specific construction illustrated and described, since such construction is only intended to be illustrative of the principles of operation and the means presently devised to carry out said principles, it being considered that the invention comprehends any minor change in construction that may be permitted within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A wrist attachment for drawing and releasing a bow string by transmitting the pull of the bow string directly to the wrist and arm muscles of an archers arm for maintaining the release control of the arrow shaft at the finger tips of the archers hand, said attachment comprising a flexible strip having opposing flexible ends, a wristband carried by one end of said strip at the inside of the wrist of the archers hand so that the strip is disposed in confronting relation to the palm of the hand and in substantial straight line relation with the inside of the forearm of the archers arm, at least two flexible tongues having a space therebetween projecting longitudinally from the other end of said strip, a rolled enlargement extending along the distal end of each of said tongues, the space between said tongues being adapted to have extended therethrough the neck of an arrow shaft with said tongues being partially extended about a bow string of a bow and held against the bow string by the finger tips of an archer when the shaft nock of the arrow has been extended through said space, and a flexible element extending across the space between said tongues inwardly of and adjacent to and spaced from said enlargements and adapted to underlie and bear against the shaft nock of an arrow when extended through said space to restrain the arrow shaft from movement.

2. An archers wrist attachment for drawing and releasing a bow string by transmitting the pull of the bow string directly to the wrist and arm muscles of an archers arm while maintaining the release control of the arrow shaft at the finger tips of the archers hand, said attachment comprising a flexible strip disposed in confronting relation to the palm of the hand of an archer and extending parallel to the fingers, said strip being of a length to extend substantially between the wrist and the finger tips of an archer and having opposing ends, Wrist engaging means on one of the ends to attach the end of the strip to the inside of the wrist of an archer so that the strip is disposed in such confronting relation to the palm of the hand and is in substantial straight line relation with the inside of the forearm of the archers arm, said other end having at least two axially projecting tongues which are spaced laterally apart to define a space therebetween that is of a size to permit the passage between the tongues of the neck of an arrow shaft, said tongues having free flexible ends which are partially extended about the bow string of a bow and held against the bow string by the finger tips of an archer when the neck of the arrow shaft is disposed through the space and receive the bow string whereby the finger tips control the release of the arrow shaft while the pull is directly transmitted through the strip to the wrist of the archer, and a flexible element mounted on the strip and transversely bridging the space and extending between the tongues at their inner ends.

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